Each company of our diversified conglomerate has its own Reward and Recognition benchmarked to its Industry segment. In January 2010, all companies from across all Industry segments were brought together on a common Group Awards Platform. The Group Long Service Awards were a special award instituted to reward every person who had completed 10 years or more in the Group during the Centennial. Hosted by Chairperson Emeritus, Mrs. Shirin Paul, the Centenary Celebrations Committee members toured regional nodes, New Delhi, Kolkata and Vishakapatnam to make each person feel valued and treasured. The award structure and modalities were the same for everybody – from a shop floor employee to a sous Chef, from a doorman to a Managing Director.

To make this celebration function gatherings unique and personalised, employees were asked to send photos or video footage of their favourite moments in Apeejay, towards making an Audio-Visual (AV) on 100 years of Apeejay.

Thousands of pictures and video clips poured in from which we made an AV knitting it all together. In some of the venues the AV brought tears to the eyes of attendees. To our delight there were hundreds of employees at every location who qualified for the Long Service Awards, many from an off city location were flown into the regional nodes.

At each of the three locations, the ceremony ran into hours of fun, nostalgia and entertainment, touching the hearts of hundreds and thousands of employees and their families.